The police didn’t waste their time. They came in first thing in the morning. Of course, for now, I kept the note hidden. I just wanted to get this over with. Involving the police there was the last thing that I wanted to do experience.They asked me to wait in the room with plain white walls and a mirror at the front. So that’s what they call an interrogation room. I wait there for a while with a feeling that I was being constantly monitored. After a few minutes or so, this police officer comes in with a mug. He placed it in front of me while sitting in his chair.“Some coffee. I thought you might need it. We called in early, I know. But I hope you understand this is how case procedures go.” He says.I smile and nod, trying to keep my secrets to myself.“First, I’m Rick Anderson. I do the questioning around here.”“Please, Feel comfortable. Think of it as a simple chat of trying to get to know each other. The only difference is, I want to know what and why Ms Polinski would do such a
“What do you mean... your case?”“That’s all you need to know.”He keeps his focus on driving again. I was getting a lot anxious now. I get why he would keep something a secret, but, Why not just tell me? He hasn’t even forced me to sign an NDA, so I guess I was a trustworthy person. Right now, I couldn’t just take this trauma. Most of the time, I felt like I was with a stranger.“Stop the car,” I commanded Ethan.“What?”“Stop. The. Car.”Ethan does and I get out of it, and he follows up with me, too.“Where are you doing?” He asks.“Home.”“It’s raining, Ms May. Please. Get in the car. I’ll drive you.”“No!”I walk away, and he grabs my arm slowly, preventing me from storming away from him. I turned to look at him and all I could feel is, him genuinely stopping me. Asking me to stay for a while. Like he needed me.“Leave me, Ethan.” I avoid eye contact.“What do you want me to say? Angelica? What exactly can I say for you to come with me?”“The truth maybe? Ethan. I feel like I don’
“I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to..I...”“It doesn’t matter now.”He carefully snatched the box from my hands and gazed into it.“I’m gonna go. I called my driver. He’s already outside.” Ethan says.“What about your?..”“He brought some spare clothes, Ms May. Thank you for the shake.”He walks out of his room as I follow behind him. Ethan opens the door and I could have a glimpse of a man standing with an umbrella. Just as he watches Ethan coming towards him, He opens the car door and grabs a spare shirt, giving it to him.Ethan wears it and goes inside the car in the passenger seat while the other guy, in driving. And they drove off. Ethan didn’t even look at me before going. I close the door behind me and I lean into it.“Ethan had a fiance? If he did.”“Where is she, now?”It was getting a lot late, so I just went back to sleep. I guess the rain is getting to me. I wasn’t feeling all that good. Sure Angelica, for you, walking in the rain is dramatic, huh? Now see what you did to yoursel
“Hey, talk to me?” I say to Nat.She shook her head and looked directly at me once again.“I’m sorry, I’m just on a lot of painkillers and I can’t seem to keep my head straight.”“I guess I just...”“You..?”“I just want my best friend back again, Angie. I just want you back, just like the way we were before. Never fighting, always laughing and teasing each other. Even when times were hard, we never ever left each other’s sight no matter how hard the situation was. I just want those days back.”“I’m sorry.. sight,. I’m in no position to ask this from you right now. I mean.. I should be happy that you’re even talking to me right now, so.. Forget what I just said. I’m all over the place right now.”Not saying another word, I grab her hand with both of mine and I smile.“We can have all that again, Nat. You are my best friend and trust me, if something happened to you? I would come up to where you would go just to tell you that you’re a bitch.”We both laugh and she started coughing.“Sl
Why.. Why would she lie to me? I mean...Nat? Attempting suicides again and again? I don’t believe it. I just don’t. At first, I thought maybe I should respect her privacy and just let it go.But will she tell me the truth about.… this? You don’t ask a convict why you killed that stranger for no reason. There’s only a 0.00001% chance one of them would tell the tale.But Nat? I don’t know. Maybe I’m just overthinking it all over again. But I needed to know. Reading her diary may help prevent this from happening in the future. If I could just find out the reason.I flip the pages, and at first, I couldn’t find shit. I turned and turned and turned and there wasn’t anything that already didn’t know. I was nearly about to give up when I finally read this. The day we were going to shop together. When I...Dear Diary.Today, Angelica and I went shopping together. We stopped by a coffee shop where the guy server was eying her and asked for Angelica’s number. I wanted to stop their conversation
Jonathan quickly pulled up his almost-down jeans, and I wore my shirt. We both looked at Nat, confused and embarrassed. We thought she was still sleeping and couldn’t have known, but because Nat was awake and she just stood there, watching us get dressed.Jonathan and I got obviously startled and started getting dressed.“Natalia, I didn’t know you were awake.”“I wasn’t. But I just heard some noises from your room, so I went to check up on you.”Noises? We were so silent about doing stuff. How could she possibly hear noises? This wasn’t possible, it was too.. I don’t know... creepy?“I think I should get back to my place,” Jonathan said, trying to break the silence.“I’ll escort you out,” I say. “Do you need something else, Nat? Juice? Sandwich?”“No, thank you.” She looked directly at Jonathan with demon eyes, literally scaring both of us.“We should all hang out someday,” she says.It was so fucked up. She never reacted the way she was reacting right now. It felt like I was living
“Are you sure you’re going to be okay?” I ask Nat while I pass her a glass of juice and drink my own.“I’m going to be fine, Angie. Don’t worry.”“Call me if something goes sideways, okay? No matter where I’ll come back.”“Got it, Mom, Now go, earn and spend all your money on me.”“Sure, Ms universe.”I walk back to my room to get changed and freshen up for work. Suddenly my eyes fall on the drawer in which I kept Nat’s journal. I should probably place it back to where it was. The least I want to do is cause another fight between us.--Beep beep--Greetings.You have an appointment with Doctor Herbert at 4:30 AM.We hope only well for you and your loved ones.Have a good day.Finally, I got an appointment with the doc. I had to ask about Nat’s unusual behaviour. There might be something I could do to make it better.Before I went downstairs, I grabbed the journal and carefully went into Nat’s room and placed it where I took it from. Suddenly I heard her coming back to her room, and I
“Ethan. I know I can’t force you into anything. But I need to know who you are. I will not ask you every day about your lovely or terrible past or even about who you are. What we can do is take one step at a time. I share something about me, you do the same. Slowly. This won’t mean anything if we don’t do that.”“We may adjust to the start, but later, you know what’ll happen. And I kinda don’t want to leave this job so.”We both giggled a little as he cupped and kissed my forehead.“Can you try?” I ask, looking into his eyes, pleading.“I can try.”“Thank you, Ethan.”He smiled and locked his lips on me before breaking our interlocked action. He bit my lower lip, filling me with electricity and pushing me away.“Get back to work now,” he said playfully and in a deep voice.I laugh and I walk out of the office.I guess I should probably check on Nat. While sitting back in my office, I took out my phone texting her.“How’s my guardian?”“She’s alright, watching a movie, a spooky one.”“